Alan Watts Quotes About Belief

Quotes about: Belief

• But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

  Alan Watts

  Inspiring, Faith, Letting Go

• Belief, as I use the word here, is the insistence that the truth is what one would "lief" or wish it to be. The believer will open his mind to the truth on condition that it fits in with his preconceived ideas and wishes. Faith, on the other hand, is an unreserved opening of the mind to the truth, whatever it may turn out to be. Faith has no preconceptions; it is a plunge into the unknown. Belief clings, but faith lets go.

  Alan Watts

  Self, Mind, Wish

  "The Wisdom of Insecurity".

• And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

  Alan Watts

  Attitude, Opposites, Belief

• If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.

  Alan Watts

  Letting Go, Have Faith, Belief

  Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

• For we have never actually understood the revolutionary sense beneath them – the incredible truth that what religion calls the vision of God is found in giving up any belief in the idea of God.

  Alan Watts

  Giving Up, Ideas, Vision

  Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

• Western religions are more concerned with behavior, doctrine, and belief than with any transformation of the way in which we are aware of ourselves and our world.

  Alan Watts

  Our World, Doctrine, Way

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